Managing Cultural Differences: Global Leadership Strategies for the 21st Century

I am very satisfied with my purchase; the item was just as it was described. I would order from this seller again.

The book is 2 books for the price of 1. Unit 1's 250+ pages is the 'meat & potatos' concept with the most important Chapter 2. If you only read 30 pages, read Chapter 2. This unit should be standard training for foreign service, country negotiators and global business people to get beyond values like 'honest' / 'dishonest' communication and relate to each other in terms of cultural directness / indirectness (low & high context communication). Unit 2's 250+ page is more of a reference book with details country by country for use when you need to connect with the relevant country culture. The 1 down side (4 stars instead of 5) is that SO MUCH is packed in this 1 book as a text book that it is not easily portable to take with you on trips to foreign countries.

As a cross-cultural consultant and graduate business professor, I highly recommend the sixth edition of the MCD book by Harris, Moran, and Moran. I currently utilize the new edition in both my online and onground MBA courses which deal primarily with international management and leadership issues. The authors had cohesively distilled the topics of business, culture, and management into a readable and usable text that is easily interpreted by students, undergraduates included. I have followed the authors' work on this series for the past 10 years and have seen nothing but the most relevant information being added to the subsequent editions. As a consultant and an educator, I recommend the sixth edition of the MCD books without reservation. They are essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the integral effects on culture in this era of globalization. - Dr. Eileen Sheridan Wibbeke San Jose, California, USA

These book will help the executives of your company or under your command to climb cultural walls and make successful negotiations with businessman's overseas. Also it will help understanding other cultures and becoming more culturally humble: much of the problems we have today as humans rely on the egocentric way we see the world, a lot of problems would disappear if we could just sit on a table and learn the way others think. A most read for international sales managers and embassy personal. Enjoy.

This book offers shrewd advice on how to operate in a cluster of countries separated by much more than language. The advice is useful for businesses operating overseas -- whether traveling or transfering for an international assignment.